Note 084
From Chapter 56 of the Decline & Fall

Anna, with the rancor of a Greek schismatic, calls him (l. i. p. 32), a pope, or priest, worthy to be spit upon and accuses him of scourging, shaving, and perhaps of castrating the ambassadors of Henry (p. 31, 33). But this outrage is improbable and doubtful (see the sensible preface of Cousin).